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Isabel Soveral was born in Porto, Portugal. She attended the composition courses of Joly Braga Santos and Jorge Peixinho at the National Conservatory of Lisbon. In 1988 he joined the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Daria Semegen and Bulent Arel. She got grants from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Luso American Foundation and Fulbright Foundation to attend the master's and doctorate degrees in composition at this University.
The publishers Musicoteca, Fermata and Cecilia Honegger edited some of her scores. She has several works on CD by the publishers: Portugalsom and Strauss, EMI Classics, New Music, Capella, Deux-Elles and Numerical.
Her music has been performed in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, German, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Macao, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and United States.
She is a Professor of Composition, Music Theory and Analysis in the Department of Communication and Arts at Aveiro University. She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Center for Research in Portuguese Music.
Main works:
Quarteto – 1984. Première at Gulbenkian Festival of Contemporary Music, Lisbon.
Fragmentos – 1985. Première at Festival "Dias de Música Contemporânea de Vigo" and selected to be part of the portuguese participation at the International Festival of Contemporary Music"FOCUS", New York.
Contornos I – 1987. Price at the competition "Exposisom" JMP and selected to represent Portugal at "The 1998 ISCM-ACL World Music Days", Hong Kong.
...Un soir j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux - Et je l'ai trouvée amère – 1998. Culturgest commission; premiered at the concert dedicated to Bertolt Brecht entitled "The Seven Deadly Sins.
Inscriptions sur une Peinture – 1998. S. Carlos National Theater commission; première at "Wien Modern", 98 by Klangforum ensemble and conductor Pascal Rophé.
Anamorphoses Cycle – 1993-2002:
Anamorphoses III, violin and electronics, premiered by José Machado in Meetings of Contemporary Music in Lisbon, 1995, F. Gulbenkian; performed by David Alberman at the festival Tage für Neue Musik, Zürich, 1999.
Anamorphoses VII – 2002. Casa da Música commission; première at Rivoli Theater in December 2003 by Remix Ensemble and conductor Frank Ollu.
Mémoires d’Automne Cycle – 1999-2003:
Image I, solo marimba. Première at S. Carlos Theater on a concert/interview dedicated to her work as part of the cycle "Portuguese Composers", 2000.
Trama – 2005. Commission from GMCL
Paradeisoi – 2007. Commissions from Gulbenkian Foundation
Première by the Gulbenkian Orchestra; conductor: Pascal Rophé.
Le Navigateur du Soleil Incandescent Cycle – 2005-2009:
Première Lettre,viola and piano, commissioned by the Festival of Povoa do Varzim (2005);
Deuxième Lettre, counter-tenor, chorus and orchestra, commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2006);
Troisième Lettre, solo voice, orchestra and electronics (work in progress).
Quatrième Lettre, commissioned by Miso Music for Sond"Arte Electric Ensemble
Cycle Shakespeare for soprano and electronics - 2007-2009:
“Since Brass nor stone...” (2007);
...Why write I still all one, ever the same, and keep invention in a noted weed, (work in progress)
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